Essays on Nineteen Eighty Four

Nineteen Eighty Four is a dystopian novel written by George Orwell in 1948 and published in 1949. Nineteen Eighty Four is a social science fiction novel which gives the reader an idea on how the world will be like under a totalitarian form of government. The story takes place in Oceania and the main character in the novel is Winston Smith. The "1984" novel carries a warning to the society on where it is heading to. The paperback is divided into three different parts. Part one shows the main character and his conflicts with the world he lives in and how it ...

Nineteen Eighty Four is a dystopian novel written by Gorge Orwell in 1948 and was later published in 1949. The novel depicts a totalitarian dystopian world where all the citizens are constantly brainwashed and are forced to be equal. The people in the book are forced to work for big brother without any freedom as their rights are infringed. The party in the novel suppresses the people’s thinking by making them equal in addition to creating fear in them through strict laws and propaganda in order to stop them from resisting (Bowker 102). Through this book, Orwell warns us of ...

SUMMARY OF NEIL POSTMAN’S AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH

ABSTRACT In Neil Postman’s book ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’, there has been a comparative analysis of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Author Postman has focused on proving that it is the Brave New World which surpasses Nineteen Eighty Four in terms of more realistic prediction of how human civilization shall end up being ruined by things as well as technologies we love. This short essay aims at summarizing the two chapters of this book, namely ‘The Medium is Metaphor’ and ‘Media as Epistemology’.

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Introduction Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves ...